Article Submission:does it really drive traffic

14 years ago

That's because most people don't do it right.

Originally Posted by ediddy02

I have been trying article marketing for a while now using ezinearticles.com,its bad enough it takes a while to get your submitted articles approved,its worse to see that your articles don't even get the much needed traffic you need.I need advice on how best i can drive traffic to my site ForexNew.com |Forex Trading News|Online Forex Trading|Commodity Trade|ForexNewsFactory.com and if i decide to sell it is it a valuable property especially as regards to the design and layout.It was designed with wordpress.

Finally i think article marketing is overrated.

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Marke Juster

14 years ago

good information .

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Barry Unruh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ediddy02

Finally i think article marketing is overrated.

You are absolutely right. Article marketing is overrated. Creating excellent content in the form of articles, blog posts, videos, forum posts, tweets, Squidoo Lenses, HubPages, etc... on the other hand is greatly underrated.

The better your content, the better your research, the better your funnel, the better your results.

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x3xsolxdierx3x

14 years ago

Originally Posted by KansasDragon

You are absolutely right. Article marketing is overrated. Creating excellent content in the form of articles, blog posts, videos, forum posts, tweets, Squidoo Lenses, HubPages, etc... on the other hand is greatly underrated.

The better your content, the better your research, the better your funnel, the better your results.

KansasDragon,

Have you ever done article spinning like the previous poster mentioned?

I've never done it....

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by x3xsolxdierx3x

KansasDragon,

Have you ever done article spinning like the previous poster mentioned?

I've never done it....

I did it once but I didn't inhale ...

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x3xsolxdierx3x 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I did it once but I didn't inhale ...

It doesn't count if you didn't inhale, Alexa...lol
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x3xsolxdierx3x

14 years ago

Originally Posted by John McEachern

Are you sure this post wasn't made to simply show off that new avatar of yours?? :confused::p

Alexa has the best avatars.

(Way to derail this thread, Alexa...lol)

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

You surely can't have imagined that a thread with "Article Submission" in the title was going to escape comment from me altogether?! Anyway, I decided that when people start these threads now saying "Article marketing doesn't work any more" I'm just going to step in and agree with them, to try to put off as many people as possible. I'll get rid of the competition if it kills me. That traffic is all mine. Mine, I tell you ...

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tpw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You surely can't have imagined that a thread with "Article Submission" in the title was going to escape comment from me altogether?! Anyway, I decided that when people start these threads now saying "Article marketing doesn't work any more" I'm just going to step in and agree with them, to try to put off as many people as possible. I'll get rid of the competition if it kills me. That traffic is all mine. Mine, I tell you ...

That is kind of my approach too... Some people don't want to hear the truth... YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH... LOL

If people want to believe that article marketing sucks, that is their business, but if they drop out of the race, I will have fewer people to compete with to get my own articles in front of more people...

Originally Posted by ediddy02

I have been trying article marketing for a while now using ezinearticles.com

Let's cut a bit through the limited information and jump to the real facts...

Ike Steve - EzineArticles.com Expert Author

You have written 10 articles since May 2009, so less than one article per month over the last 15 months...

Only two of those articles were written about Forex...

Your longest Forex article is 365 words...

Originally Posted by ediddy02

Finally i think article marketing is overrated.

So far the only thing that I have seen that is overrated is your assessment of what you have committed to your article marketing endeavors...

Just like there are NO MAGIC BULLETS in Forex Trading, there are also no magic bullets in article marketing... You cannot do something half-assed and declare it a failure... (Well, I guess you can, but that does not make you right...)

So you have written 10 articles and two of them for forex and sent them to EzineArticles.com... That is not article marketing --- that is article tinkering...

You have not even made a commitment to your readers to get their attention... I did read both of your articles, and you simply beat around the bush for 300 words, without ever saying anything that could potentially impress those in your target audience...

Article Marketing is not something to which you can throw some crap against the wall and make any money... Crap does not sell... Real information that real publishers want on their sites is the article marketing that drives traffic and sales...

People don't sing songs of praise about EzineArticles, because they got traffic and sales directly from EZA... EZA is a clearinghouse for articles...

In the ideal situation, a publisher will find your article on that site and tell themselves that it is so awesome that they need to publish it on their site too...

That is the real goal of getting your articles into EZA...

So how did you do?

* http://www.google.com/search?num=100...22Ike+Steve%22

* http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mo...22Ike+Steve%22

Neither article was published outside of EzineArticles...

Shame... Your articles never made it out passed the gate...

Did you write articles for your reader and the publishers who want to impress their readers... No, you did not... And as a result, your minimal efforts produced no results, beyond getting you a couple links from EzineArticles.com

If you want to read a bit about how to use article marketing in a way that could produce real results for you, get the free ebook in my signature file... If you think I am an ass, you are probably right about that... Even if you think I am too big of an ass to buy from, read the book anyway... You might learn something...

Article Marketing requires some effort, and it should never be construed as a band-aid for a bad marketing plan or lack thereof...

If you fail to write for your reader, you will fail...

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aandersen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

If you want to read a bit about how to use article marketing in a way that could produce real results for you, get the free ebook in my signature file... If you think I am an ass, you are probably right about that... Even if you think I am too big of an ass to buy from, read the book anyway... You might learn something...

I will second this advice. That free ebook is top notch. Not to mention it is actually free, no opt-in or nothin

IMO bill knows his s*** about article marketing and i would listen to what he is saying to you.

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ukcarl

14 years ago

I never liked article marketing, but if you do good research and lots of volume you still can drive traffic, for me there are better ways to use my time, all my article writing gets outsourced but I still do the research

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x3xsolxdierx3x

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ukcarl

I never liked article marketing, but if you do good research and lots of volume you still can drive traffic, for me there are better ways to use my time, all my article writing gets outsourced but I still do the research

Haven't yet begun to outsource here, however, I'm seriously contemplating it...

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stevecl

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ediddy02

I have been trying article marketing for a while now using ezinearticles.com,its bad enough it takes a while to get your submitted articles approved,its worse to see that your articles don't even get the much needed traffic you need.I need advice on how best i can drive traffic to my site ForexNew.com |Forex Trading News|Online Forex Trading|Commodity Trade|ForexNewsFactory.com and if i decide to sell it is it a valuable property especially as regards to the design and layout.It was designed with wordpress.

Finally i think article marketing is overrated.

Writing and submitting an article to ezine articles is not about purely getting traffic from ezine articles alone. You are leveraging the Link juice from ezine and getting your article picked up by other sites.

Build links to your articles to get them ranked higher in google, write quality content so other sites publish your work. Get it right and it works like gangbusters.

Just my 2cents
Steve

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ContentYogi

14 years ago

In my mind Ezine is entirely a different beast. They always seem to be coming up with newer reasons to reject an article. But it is worth all the trouble. Many niches still draw decent traffic of it and then there is the bonus of getting relevant back links for your site.

Getting articles approved on other article directories is easy and not very time consuming. So I wouldn't ignore the method at all.

Most of our customers typically have us worry about Ezine and they submit the same set of approved articles on other article directories using freely available tools.

You could consider similar approach too.

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Barry Unruh

14 years ago

Article Spinning? I think I'd get a headache.

No, I usually hand rewrite articles if I want to reuse an idea. As my wife mentioned one time when she read one of my "rewrites", "you did not use the same sentence anywhere".

I can see the value of spinning in certain situations. If you want to bulk submit to a lot of lower tier article directories to create backlinks to a article or a YouTube video to get them bumped up on Google, then it could make sense.

My biggest problem with spinning is by the time I create the alternate wording, put in all the syntax, run the program, change the titles, I could have probably created several more unique quality articles to use.

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Landis

14 years ago

Originally Posted by KansasDragon

Article Spinning? I think I'd get a headache.

No, I usually hand rewrite articles if I want to reuse an idea. As my wife mentioned one time when she read one of my "rewrites", "you did not use the same sentence anywhere".

I can see the value of spinning in certain situations. If you want to bulk submit to a lot of lower tier article directories to create backlinks to a article or a YouTube video to get them bumped up on Google, then it could make sense.

My biggest problem with spinning is by the time I create the alternate wording, put in all the syntax, run the program, change the titles, I could have probably created several more unique quality articles to use.

Yes spinning an article takes time. If you only need two unique articles, its probably best if you just wrote them from scratch. However, if you took about an hr to correctly spin an article, you could get hundreds of thousands of highly unique variations from ONE seed article.

100,000+ 80% unique articles > 4 100% unique articles IMO for the same amount of time.

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cashcow

14 years ago

You probably aren't using the right keywords or getting enough backlinks to your articles.

The Forex niche, I'm sure, is quite competitive so I would imagine you would need to really take some time to find keywords you can rank for and get the appropriate back links to every article you submit.

What has been your process so far? (i.e. how many articles have you submitted, how many back links to them, how you determine keyword competition etc..)

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Chris Munch

14 years ago

Yeah works really well when done right.

There's a variety of strategies, some spammy, some Google friendly, but you can get a positive ROI with all of them when done right.

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JohnMcCabe 14 years ago

I tried article spinning once.

All I got was a dizzy article that upchucked words on my shoes...
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14 years ago

Originally Posted by ediddy02

I have been trying article marketing for a while now using ezinearticles.com,its bad enough it takes a while to get your submitted articles approved,its worse to see that your articles don't even get the much needed traffic you need.I need advice on how best i can drive traffic to my site ForexNew.com |Forex Trading News|Online Forex Trading|Commodity Trade|ForexNewsFactory.com and if i decide to sell it is it a valuable property especially as regards to the design and layout.It was designed with wordpress.

Finally i think article marketing is overrated.

I've got to ask... how many articles have you written? I've had people ask me why they're not seeing a surge in traffic - after publishing 8 articles.

If you've only gotten a few articles published, be patient. Article marketing is something that needs time to build momentum. However, in the meantime, you're missing out on alot by only dealing with Ezine Articles. There are plenty of good article directories out there that have good PR and traffic, and they will accept your articles much quicker than EZA. It's never a good idea to put all of your eggs into one basket. Try a bunch of article directories, and see who gives you the best results.

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GameVoid

14 years ago

Depends on the article, really.

Looking at my EZA article stats, the articles that provide real and useful information get the highest amount of readers, reprints, and URL Clicks back to my own site. Buying guides, product care and review articles worked best for me in terms of both traffic and sales.

I think if your article is just a rewording of a clickbank sales page then you won't do so good, but if you write something useful then you will do okay. It's hard to spin an article that has real value to a reader, but those who can do it (by hand) are probably the ones seeing the real value of article marketing.

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H.Miller

14 years ago

I have been doing article marketing for a few years and it works great. How many articles have you written? I have noticed sometimes people only write a few articles and expect to get a ton of traffic. Article marketing is a quantity and a quality game. The more articles you have out there the better. Also don't just submit to ezinearticles. Submit to articlesbase and articlesnatch as well. Both drive a lot of traffic.

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EBiz81

14 years ago

Article marketing can work if you do it right. I would also throw in some video marketing if I was you.

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chephalonia

14 years ago

find targeted keyword list, build articles using that list. create good backlink maybe you can use google alert to find good backlink.

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lamberw

14 years ago

Yes, but to have success, you need to do the following:

1) Research BUYER keywords suitable for your niche
2) Create article with keyword density as close to 10-12% as possible.
3) Submit to Ezine Articles first. If they see duplicate content elsewhere on the web, they won't allow it.
4) Have a interesting resource box that fills the user with curiosity and belief that you can solve their problem.
5) Article should be 500-750 words.

Do not use the same article on too many sites otherwise it will be degraded by search engines. Spinning articles can help but ensure that they are at a minimum 40% spun. The more article directories you submit to, the more you need to spin the articles.

Always claim ownership on articles before submitting.

I would suggest just bothering with:

Ezine Articles
Go Articles
SearchWarp

They all have high traffic which gets you more traffic (and credibility with Google)

They also have higher page rank so your backlinks count as more with Google's algorithm.

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JohnMcCabe 14 years ago

One thing I think the OP has proven - a couple of poorly written, short filler articles with boring resource boxes will not work.
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mowens17

14 years ago

Had mixed success, done properly I think it can be a good long term source of traffic

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